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>It's almost like the will of people never mattered and we all just pretended it did for a few decades while shit was chill
Yes that is indeed how the law works. It is impossible for a legal system to always function exactly as it is intended. But part of what makes the legal system work is a shard understanding that the belief in that system helps to ensure the system functions as well as it possibly can.
Conservatives in this country for the past decade or so have done everything in their power to undermine the belief that the system is there to mutually support the people. What we are seeing now, from the arguments of people ITT to ICE blackbagging anyone brown, is the natural progression of that undermining. If the system does not protect everyone equally, then why bother attempting to do so in the first place? That is why for them this MUST be a zero sum game. The objective was always to get to the point where laws are only enforced against their perceived enemies, it's how America used to work prior to the Due Process Revolution. Once things like the civil rights act were passed and legal decisions like Miranda were canonized, we made great strides go be more legally sound. And that, I would argue, is a big part of why America excelled from the 1960s and 1970s into winning the cold war. America simply made the better argument about Universal equality than Soviet communism did, and was accepted more broadly in the world. But now we are choosing to roll all that back under the pretext of a zero sum rights game. And it will crush our nation, one day being seen as the turning point where the American empire began to collapse.
